Neües Danβerlein Büechel: Winter Und Sommer Gaertlein, Plate 2
Elisabeth Auingerin Austrian
Publisher H. N. D. C. Austrian
Not on view
Second plate of pocket-sized Textile Pattern Book with title page 13 pages of letterpressed text, printed on recto and verso, and 33 plates with small textile patterns. This type of pattern book, dated 1691, is of an unusually small format, featuring intricately decorated titles and text, rarely present in German pattern books for women of the 17th century. The plate consists of a grid of thin lines, filled with an embroidery pattern, likely intended for cross-stitching, with a rectangular frame made up of a thin garland with leaves and flower buds, which encloses the letters "MRA". The pattern is executed by filling with dots the spaces of the grid with black to reveal the design motifs. It would have been used mostly by women as a guide in their needlework, which was a type of "entertainment-work" they were expected to engage with during their free time in the home at the time this pattern book was produced.
